Author: Improvement Cymru

Resources to support people with learning disabilities during the COVID-19 outbreak by Dr Ruth Wyn Williams, Senior Improvement Manager, Improvement Cymru.

As a learning disability nurse, people with learning disability and their families have always amazed me with their resilience, passion and commitment to strive for what’s right.  During the COVID-19 pandemic people have read, danced, joined music sessions, sang, took part in online quizzes, baked, exercised and there are many

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Health Worker Safety: A Priority for Patient Safety – NHS Wales Delivery Unit

This year’s theme for World Patient Safety Day is the welfare and safety of healthcare workers. It recognises that working in stressful environments can make health workers more prone to errors, which can lead to patient harm. Quality and Safety is a theme running through all the DU’s work; this

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World Patient Safety Day 2020 – John Boulton, Director, Improvement Cymru

Today is WHO World Patient Safety Day. At the present time patient safety is gaining perhaps more attention than ever given the need for us to protect patients from the harms of COVID-19. Highlighting World Patient Safety, therefore, seems timely. The theme of this year’s WHO World Patient Safety Day

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